Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
HONORE DE BALZACDeath is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man.
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To be happy, a man must love his wife as she chooses to be loved.
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The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.
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A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.
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All human power is a compound of time and patience.
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The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.
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The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.
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Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.
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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
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Many people claim coffee inspires them, but, as everybody knows, coffee only makes boring people even more boring.
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Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.
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There is a cure for temptation. What? Yielding to it.
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Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.
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To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals – that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him.
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Life cannot go on without much forgetting.
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Liberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished without being able to make any of these systems triumph.
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